re: #236 Blind Frog Belly White

If they were data-driven, they wouldn’t be financial conservatives. Strip out the SoCon nonsense from Conservative Economics, and you have a failed hypothesis. It’s got no predictive value.

Mostly true in terms of taxation, trickle down theory, gaming the Laffer Curve and suchlike. I was imagining a version of conservatism that might drastically reduce military spending, means tested Social Security, eliminated oil exploration subsidies and the second home mortgage deduction. In other words an imaginary version that actually focused on eliminating waste instead of just pretending to.